Here are some remembrances of restaurants past that readers have sent in:

“Your article brought back some memories. You mentioned the Lady Alexander which was the floating restaurant at the foot of Cardero Street, across from the Bayshore Inn. I and another guy, Gord Wallace, were the first male servers hired at the Lady Alex. The year was late 1964 and Gord and I had talked our way in as the first waiters about a fortnight earlier and got new, tailor-made white jackets and pants, cummerbunds and bow ties made for us by the employers and our first night as waiters was New Year’s Eve, 1964/5. I had never waited tables before and I almost went crazy with four big tables but I did survive it.” — Mike Storr.

Storr also mentioned that en route to the Peter Pan restaurant early one morning in 1965, he got ticketed for jaywalking.

He didn’t pay the ticket and ended up in jail a few months later when he was stopped by police for a routine check.

“I was actually tried in front of a judge and found guilty. Reminds me of Arlo Guthrie in Alice’s Restaurant, who went to the slammer for littering.”

Storr ran a leather boutique (The Sasparilla) on Fourth Ave. during the hippie era. It was across from The Naam restaurant and neighbourhood shops included The Last Chance Saloon, Bimini and Blind Owl Sandal Shop.

Here’s a memory provided by Harvie Davidson: “As a young boy, my absolute favourite was a restaurant a couple of doors down from Scott’s Cafe.

“I think it was called The Airliner. It had a tail section of a commercial sized aircraft jutting out and partly protruding over the sidewalk. Inside the walls of it, rectangular portholes showed moving scenery which moved by the portholes on some sort of conveyor belt. Every time I went there I had a salmon sandwich which consisted of a whole can of salmon on a bed of lettuce.”

That’s so much like Proust and his madeleine, don’t you think?

And here’s a lovely image from atop the Hotel Vancouver, from MaryAnn Westendorf: “I remember my friend Jennie and I (young divorcees) going up the Roof at the Hotel Vancouver and ordering a half carafe of white wine, a Caesar salad made tableside and having delicious crepe Suzettes for dessert — again, tableside. We always enjoyed a fabulous evening and danced all night long in our chiffon dresses!”

What do you remember from restaurants past?

Send your remembrances to mstainsby@vancouversun.com with “Restaurant Memories” in the subject line.

mstainsby@vancouversun.com

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